Last month, in an effort to spread the news on how Littleton could END LOCAL POVERTY by changing local policy, I went to the “40B” apartments at Village Green (on the Acton line) to ask for signatures from strangers. The majority of the people who signed my nomination papers live here: The drone’s-eye view of […]

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Last week, during Candidates’ Night, I said something that was both inaccurate and misleading. Click HERE and watch for 12 seconds (until I say, “Thank you.”) It’s in my opening statement: First off, I want to make clear that I do not believe that the ONLY people who care about Littletonians living in poverty were […]

Read more "I Misspoke, Littleton"

Yesterday afternoon, I watched the replay of Candidates’ Night. Objectively, the two candidates vying for the one open seat on the Select Board have different messages and different priorities. If you take the time to watch, you’ll see. Click HERE for Chuck’s opening statement, followed by mine, and thereafter Chuck and I take questions before […]

Read more "Quite a Contrast, Littleton"

If the profit from one cannabis shop is about a million bucks and when the other one opens, another million—plus the profits from the many, many licenses to sell alcohol, which probably amount to, I don’t know, eight million, to get us to a nice round ten million, then yes, Littleton, we can end local […]

Read more "What if It Worked, Littleton?"

For those of you who remain uninformed about my resignation from the Board of Selectmen a decade ago, you can click HERE to listen to the statement I recorded seven months ago in response to demands that I “explain myself” in the wake of unsuccessful efforts to disqualify my appointment to the Finance Committee. One […]

Read more "A Failure to Hear is not Evidence of a Failure to Explain, Littleton"

You may have noticed, those of you who have been reading these posts, that on March 25th, they took a decidedly different tone. That’s because, on March 25th, I handed in nomination papers, and my name would be placed on the May 11th ballot. On March 25th, I became a candidate for local office. On […]

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Yesterday the United States Supreme Court heard arguments on whether the city of Grants Pass, Oregon violates the Eight Amendment’s prohibition against “cruel and unusual punishment” by assessing a fine (a “punishment” in the form of a $295.00/night fine) to people who sleep in public places. These “law-breakers” are fellow Americans who have no home. […]

Read more "April 22nd: a Big Day, Littleton (Part II)"

It’s Earth Day, an event that was first celebrated right around the time I was conceived in late April 1970. Being “good to the Earth” and giving “a hoot” were big parts of my childhood. In fact, I won the Littleton Electric Light Department’s 1979, “Stop Peaking” poster contest. If I recall, LELD was worried […]

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The other day, I read that only one in three men have read a book in the last year, so it’s twice as likely you’ve not read any book, non-fiction or fiction, recently—never mind the several I shared with you. That’s cool though because I love movies too. I’m going to share with you a […]

Read more "Odds are Movies are a Better Bet, Chuck"

If your reading preferences lean toward fiction—and the non-fiction titles I suggested don’t pique your interest—maybe it would be better for me to let you in on some of the books (from the world of fiction) that have been shaping my thinking for the last few years. I’ll start with the big four—the ones that […]

Read more "Maybe You’re into Fiction, Instead, Chuck?"